Rather than punish law violators harshly and make them outcasts of society, peacemakers look for ways to bring them back to the community. This peacemaking movement has adopted nonviolent methods and applied them to what is known as _______________
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restorative justice
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People who are most likely to engage in the most serious forms of violence are ________
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The Central Asian republics have made the greatest strides of the former Soviet Union states in eliminating conditions for organized crime
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Differential association theory consists of an explanation of the process of learning crime but does not address the content which is learned. 2. Along with Hirschi’s bond theory, Glaser’s social learning theory is considered today one of the most important theories in criminology. 3. Rational choice theory was adapted from the field of economics to explain law- breaking behaviors. 4. Lawrence Cohen and Marcus Felson argued that the convergence of three factors—motivated offenders, suitable targets, and the lack of neutralizations—makes crime more likely. 5. Consistent with get tough approaches to crime, research consistently finds that the severity of punishment is more important than certainty of punishment.
Prisonization, a process whereby an inmates takes on the value system of the prison and its culture, actually helps rehabilitate the offender
a. true b. false